This is the first of a number of entries I'll be making dedicated to the process we're going through searching for a location.

Have you found a location yet?

...is a question that I hear literally every day (many times) and so this series of posts is designed to shed some light on the process of searching for and vetting a restaurant / cafe location in Moldova. Upcoming posts in this series will talk about the real estate market (or lack thereof) and our team's critical analysis of "where exactly is most desireable" in Chisinau. For now though we will start at the beginning. What is required of the location?

On that note team, we're in for a wild ride.

First off here is the text of the applicable Law (in Russian - much better for google translate than Romanian). I'm not going to hit all the points of that massive and far ranging document here but it's provided as reference. I want to first add a disclaimer that I have never owned, opened, run or worked in a restaurant in the states. I'm a first-timer. I mention that because while it seems to me that there is an incredible level of detail put into where I can or can't store tea vs. flour vs whatever I am sure that other countries have lots of requirements as well. In the interest of sanitation I understand this to be ok. What confuses me is an obsured level of detail in various other aspects that govern your location and the facilities required. The first bit of this is...